I’ve always liked jewelery. One of the first nice pieces of jewelry I ever got was my engagement ring which my husband gave me in a Cracker Jack box.

[My husband] taught jewelry [and over the years] I would help with the annual show, come to his class to see what people were making, I also sat in on the class and made a few things myself.

This necklace is what I have to show. It actually came out of a class that my husband [taught] a number of years ago. Students didn’t always have a lot of money to put into really fine materials, so they were looking for different types of materials that they could use [like] found objects, stones, beach pebbles, almost anything you can think of.

This necklace looks like it was created out of colored paper, twisted and rolled into a chain and it has an aluminum frame pendant on it. When you look at it closer, the material used were actually scratch-off lottery tickets and the back of the pendant is inscribed “Somebody’s Gonna Lotto, Might As Well Be You”.

This belongs in the Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams or the Museum for Dreamers

Exhibited by Elaine Bennett

Transcript edited by Susan Golland